Curry Cheese and Potato Soup

Eating for pennies sometimes requires a little creative planning. Remember that roast we made yesterday? Well we used the stock from said roast as the base for our potato soup. Now making potato soup is fine if you have limited ingredients or if that's what your craving. It's also easy, it just takes some sort of base, in this case beef stock, chopped potatoes and a little onion. Add those ingredients to a crock pot and fill to the top with water (slow cook for 6-8 hours) and you have achieved soup.









We went a step further. We added some spices we had laying around which included: garlic powder, dried parsley, cinnamon, and curry powder. we stirred that up and let it all cook for about 6 hours. Then we added milk, and about a half pound of graded pepper jack cheese, and cooked it all in for another hour, at which point we had successfully created Cheesy Curry Potato Soup!









And since you already have the cheese out, cut a couple long slices and add to the top of your bread before it goes in the oven for some very tasty cheesy Italian bread.









We priced this meal out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4 dollars. Roughly $2.50 of that is attributed to the cost of the cheese. So remember, cheese is not to be wasted, nor is it to be used in frivolous cooking adventures. It's a luxury, and an expensive one at that. But oh man does it taste good!